Emilio Vicente, MD, PhD, FACS

Emilio Vicente MD, PhD, FACS Madrid, Spain

Director of the General and Digestive Surgery Service at “Sanchinarro University Hospital” and “Clara Campal” Oncological Center. Chairman of the Surgery Section at Faculty of Medicine. San Pablo University. CEU Dr. Vicente received his M.D. degree from Zaragoza University (Spain) and the medical doctorate (PhD) from Basque Country University (Spain). He completed his surgical residency in General and Digestive Surgery at “Nuestra Señora de Aránzazu University Hospital“ (San Sebastián, Spain).

In 1992, he became Director of Digestive Viscera Transplant Program at Ramón y Cajal Hospital (Madrid, Spain) and after 5 years, Chief of the General Surgery Section at the same Hospital. He was one of the first surgeons to use the daVinci Robotic Surgical System in Spain to treat complex oncological medical processes (pancreas, liver, stomach, duodenum and esophagus). The Surgery Robotics Program that he leads at “Sanchinarro University Hospital” is focused in Oncology surgery.

He has published over 235 papers in scientific publications on several topics such as pancreatic, vascular, transplant, oncologic, digestive and robotic surgery and 48 Chapters in books and/or monographies. He has also presented more of 735 Communications in medical conferences.

He has received 30 awards for different works in general surgery and robotic surgery. Dr. Vicente is the author of SURGERY FORUM; an application exclusively designed for iPhone and iPad. In the application SURGERY FORUM, clinical cases and videos of unusual and often exceptional surgical techniques are shown. Techniques performed by open, laparoscopic, endoscopic or robotic approach performed at the University Sanchinarro Hospital and “Clara Campal” Oncological Center.

He is the Director of the First Spanish University Chair of Robotic Surgery.